Hi Pine, Yes that would be the best translation.
I hesitated to use advisory board but wanted to keep a coherence between the french and the translated name to make it easier in the future to share what it brings to us :) -- Christophe On 13 January 2015 at 12:52, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > Thanks for this information. It took me a few minutes to figure out what > the American equivalent to this committee is; at first I thought this > announcement was about a research committee. I think our equivalent is what > we would call an advisory board. Please see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_board; does this look like a good > description of what WMFR intends for its scientific committee? I ask partly > because at this very moment I am working on Cascadia Wikimedia User Group's > budget and goals documents, and it is helpful to know what experiments > other movement organizations are doing as we think about how we want to > move forward with the Cascadia group. > > Thank you. (: > > Pine > > > > Pine > > *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> > > > > > > > *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of > our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we > must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in > which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not > know.* > > *—Catherine Munro* > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Christophe Henner < > christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year. >> >> Even if the first days of 2015 were tainted by violence, we also witnessed >> people shouting how freedom is important. I hope 2015 will be at the image >> of the latter. >> >> Now, to the announcement. >> >> As you might know, Wikimedia France is working hard at improving its >> governance. A gap we identified month ago was that we lacked external >> point >> of views regarding our activities. >> >> In order to fix that, we created a scientific committee. This committee is >> a test, it doesn't exist in our bylaws. So, in 2015, we're trying this out >> to see if it can help us better do our work. >> >> This first committee is chaired by Rémi Mathis, my awesome and wonderful >> predecessor. It has 8 members, including Rémi : >> >> - *Dominique Cardon*, sociologist at Orange Labs laboratory and >> associate professor at Marne-la-Vallée university ( >> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Cardon) >> - *Camille François*, Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for >> Internet and Society >> - *Laurent Le Bon*, Chief curator, director of Picasso-Paris national >> musuem (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Le_Bon) >> - *Frédéric Martel*, journalist, writer and producer at France Culture >> (French public radio) ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Martel) >> - *Rémi Mathis*, former Wikimédia France chair, historian, curator ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Mathis) >> - *Louise Merzeau*, associate professor at Paris Ouest university in >> information sciences (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Merzeau) >> - *Henri Verdier*, Etalab director , Chief Data Officer for France ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Verdier) >> - *Cédric Villani*, mathématician, Fields Medalist ( >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani) >> >> >> Those 8 persons will meet for the first time this week to better >> understand >> what Wikimedia is. For the coming year, we will ask their inputs and >> opinions on what we're doing and planning to do for free knowledge. >> >> As said earlier, this is a test. We will try to share as much as we can >> our >> feedback on how it goes and if it's useful for Wikimedia France. >> >> The announcement in french is available on our blog : >> >> http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikimedia-france-cree-son-conseil-scientifique-7059 >> >> If you have any question feel free to ask here or to Rémi and I off-list. >> >> All the best, >> >> Christophe HENNER | Président >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> › Mail : christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr >> › Mobile : +33(0)6 50 66 47 39 >> › Tel : +33(0)5 62 89 12 01 >> › Twitter : @schiste >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Wikimédia France | Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance | >> Visitez notre blog http://blog.wikimedia.fr >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>